[UPDATED with name of shooter]
By David Futrelle
Last night, a young man opened fire on people enjoying a night out in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood. Numerous people were hit; two of his victims died — an 18-year-old woman and a 10-ear-old girl.
The shooter, identified as 29-year-old Toronto resident Faisal Hussain, was found dead shortly after a gunfight with police; it’s not clear if he was killed by the police or if he took his own life.
As of yet, we don’t know the shooter’s motive, but given his choice of targets — people out socializing on a summer night in a neighborhood known for its many restaurants — it’s hard not to wonder if he was inspired by the incel van attack that killed ten pedestrians and injured many more on a busy street in Toronto in April.
On the Incels.me message board — where many have made heroes of incel mass killers like Elliot Rodger and the Toronto van killer — some of the regulars are openly celebrating the shooting, with some taking special pleasure in the death of the ten-year-old girl.
Someone called /pol/cel, with more than 1499 comments to his name on the site, kicked off the celebration by declaring how glad he was that the shooting took place in Toronto:
“IT” is a reference to the IncelTears subreddit. devoted to mocking incels.
After one commenter took offense at /pol/cel’s glee over the murders, prolific Incels.me commenter Getlooksordie took the discussion into an even darker direction:
And things got worse from there, with much of the rest of the discussion centered around the alleged crimes-against-inceldom committed by the murdered “8 year old girl” (who was actually ten).
Somehow the discussion managed to get even more grotesque.
While a few commenters pushed back against the celebration of the murders, or simply dismissed their comments as the work of “edge lords,” the regulars who weren’t giddily joking about the murdered ten-year-old were much more worked up about one commenter who referred to the shooting as taking place in “America.”
These are men who insist they are “involuntarily celibate” — yet who are choosing of their own volition to be such utterly reprehensible human beings that no decent person of any gender would want to have anything to do with them.
@ Marshmallow Stacy Maximal & epitome of incomprehensibility,
Yes. that’s a rather bizarre and yet weirdly funny story. I missed that comment about the end times bingo card LOL
I too am creeped out by ventriloquists dummies.
“That eight year old girl probably bullies the incel in her class”
How can eight year olds be incels? They haven’t even hit puberty.
Edit: “School kid chads”?! I know the incels always fear they’re missing out on all the great sex they think their peers are having, but do they really think they’re having it… in grade school??
@Margaret Pless:
I wish I could claim to be surprised that there are incels now setting the minimum age for the Cock Carrousel back to grade school; given the escalation inherent in edgelordship, I’m wondering how long it’ll take someone to reach the point suggested by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in this verse on Nell Gwyn:
She was so exquisite a whore
That in the belly of her mother
She placed her cunt so right before
Her father fucked them both together.
(That said, Rochester, far from being an incel himself, was a notorious season-pass holder to the Cunt and Cock Carnival.)
Full Metal Ox,
That sounds like a fantasy incels would have of the unborn girlfriends they’re always writing about.
What the hell species was Nell Gwyn, a tribble? It would go some way towards explaining a few things if incels mostly learned about the birds and the bees from Star Trek, though.
Okay, so am I supposed to be pronouncing mother “mether” or together “toguther”?